American Studies (eBook)

A User's Guide

Philip J. Deloria, Alexander I. Olson (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
328 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96269-9 (ISBN)

Infos

American Studies has long been a home for adventurous students seeking to understand the culture and politics of the United States. This welcoming spirit has found appeal around the world, but at the heart of the field is an identity crisis. Nearly every effort to articulate an American Studies methodology has been rejected for fear of losing intellectual flexibility and freedom. But what if these fears are misplaced? Providing a fresh look at American Studies in practice, this book contends that a shared set of “rules” can offer a springboard to creativity. American Studies: A User’s Guide offers readers a critical introduction to the history and methods of the field as well as useful strategies for interpretation, curation, analysis, and theory.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Object of American Studies

PART ONE: HISTORIES

1 • History and Historiography
2 • Four American Studies Mixtapes
3 • An Institutional History of American Studies (Or, What’s the Matter with Mixtapes?)

PART TWO METHODS

4 • Methods and Methodology
5 • Texts: An Interpretive Toolkit
6 • Archives: A Curatorial Toolkit
7 • Genres and Formations: An Analytical Toolkit
8 • Power: A Th eoretical Toolkit

PART THREE FROM JOTTING IT DOWN TO WRITING IT UP

9 • A Few Thoughts on Ideas and Arguments
10 • Dispenser: A Case Study

Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: American Culture • american folklore • American History • American Politics • American Studies • american studies methodology • american studies textbook • critical history of the united states • culture of the united states • historical study of american culture • history of the us • how to do american studies • institutional history of the us • politics of the united states • research methods in american studies • study and teaching the united states
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96269-9 / 0520962699
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96269-9 / 9780520962699